One of the greatest things about the New York Yankees is their rivalry with the Boston Red Sox. While this has had an ebb and flow to it – some years are better/worse than others – the disdain that the teams' fans feel toward each other is timeless. Until this year, perhaps.
On Sunday morning Boston sat 15 games out of first place behind the Yankees. The only team the Red Sox are ba...

Penn State took the field shortly before noon on Saturday to thunderous applause in their season opener at Beaver Stadium vs. Ohio. To say it was emotional is an understatement; close to 100 thousand fans came out to show they care – care about this team, their university and all those caught in the disaster that is Jerry Sandusky and his horrible acts.
Saturday was about playing football...

The NCAA weighed in to provide a punishment for Penn State’s cover up of Jerry Sandusky’s abusing children. In the end $60 million, plus $13 million, plus 10 scholarships a year for four years, and no post-season games during that time means very little. For one, the four men at the heart of this crime are gone from Penn State and one of them is gone from this earth.
All of Joe Paterno’s ...

Today was a tough day to be a Penn State fan. A more difficult day still for those of us who grew up with Joe Paterno as one of our heroes.
The man himself died months ago, but now it seems Joe Paterno's legacy is dissolving before our very eyes. “Success with honor” and the “grand experiment” were his buzz words, long before anyone buzzed or tweeted about anything. He w...

It's hard to believe it, but the Yankees are just half a game out of first in the AL East. After beating Tampa, courtesy of another strong performance by Ivan Nova, the Bombers find themselves trailing only the Orioles. That's right – Baltimore.
The Rays are hanging in as a close third, and the Jays are just 2.5 games behind the leaders. Boston is in last – four games back.
How did ...

First off, apologies for being on hiatus but it's not like we missed much – the Yankees are a second-to last place team (thank you, Red Sox!). Seriously, though…without further ado, uninterrupted coverage of the 2012 season commences NOW!
Mo tore his ACL shagging flyballs during BP in Kansas City. Let's face it folks, that's probably the only way the Royals could have taken him out,...

Never mind teaching an old dog new tricks. Derek Jeter is up to his old ones. The soon to be 38-year-old Yankees shortstop is leading the Bombers regulars in hits (17), batting average (.378) and slugging percentage (.667). He's tied for the most doubles (four) and homers (three). So the news of his demise might have been greatly exaggerated.
Last season he hit 24 doubles and six home runs all ...

After a fairly atrocious start in which the Yankees were swept by the Rays in a three-game set in Tampa, they rebounded by returning the favor to Buck Showalter's Orioles. With an even .500 record, New York returns to the Bronx for the 2012 home opener on Friday.
The usual pomp and circumstance will be on tap, and Jorge Posada will have the honor of throwing out the first pitch. Hiroki Kuroda...

And we're back, after a relatively uneventful off-season (in Yankees' terms). And what happened on Opening Day? The Yankees LOST?! to Tampa with Mo on the mound. How improbable? Not really.
The Bombers are old – relatively speaking of course. According to ESPN, the Yankees are the grampies of baseball, averaging out at 31.1 years for their roster. They are followed, interestingly enough, ...

As a girl growing up in North East Pennsylvania, I can't remember a time when I didn't know who Joe Paterno was. He was like a member of the family, one of my childhood heroes and the person I cited when people spouted about college sports being corrupt and coaches being evil exploiters of athletes. He was JoePa.
He lived in a house with Sue and his kids on campus. You could walk by on game day...

With the hiring of Patriots' offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien as Head Coach of the Nittany Lions, the Paterno Era has officially ended. Gone are most (but not all) of the assistant coaches from Joe's staff including his son JayPa, who probably wouldn't have been coaching at a school like PSU if not for his dad.
No one could have imagined the circumstances that led to Joe Paterno's demise as h...

The only positive news to come out this week around the Penn State sexual abuse scandal is that a group of PSU alumni have formed #ProudPSUforRAINN, with the goal of raising $500 thousand to support the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. Check out: http://rainn.org/ProudPSUforRAINN for more details. In a little over 24 hours, they have raised $100 thousand. If everyone in the stands to...